I do feel, like everyone, there’s not enough female directors out there, there’s not enough female producers, and would like to see more people get more opportunity, more opportunity for roles for women.
BARBARA CRAMPTON
I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I’d like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I’m working with.
More Barbara Crampton Quotes
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I do feel, like everyone, there’s not enough female directors out there, there’s not enough female producers, and would like to see more people get more opportunity, more opportunity for roles for women.
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I guess in society there’s no place for women in their older thirties. We’re supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point… and wait.
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I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I’d love to be old and gray and still be working in this [horror] genre.
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When you’re working with friends, I think there’s a certain sensibility that you share, and it’s easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.
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When I work with filmmakers today, I’m really an advocate for the women’s roles that I see, to make them as layered and as deep as possible. I think many of them are underwritten.
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There was a period in my late 30s where work slowed down for me, as it does for a lot of women. You’re no longer the young, cute thing anymore and maybe you’re not quite old enough to play (what others think of) in terms of women in charge.
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I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I’d like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I’m working with.
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When I was a young actress, I was called in just to do my part, and I didn’t have any say or weight as far as any decisions go. But today, having worked as a producer and also having lived a little, I feel like I’ve found my voice more. I’m sure that it has influenced me as an actor and it will continue to do so.
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Although I’m up for working in any genre, I do love the passion and dynamic storytelling that horror stories can provide. Dealing with big questions and possibilities of all sorts of stories with life and death consequences is enthralling and exhilarating to me.
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Everybody can justify their actions. We all think that we’re doing things for reasons that are meaningful to us. Maybe not to other people, but to us.
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I watch the energy between the actors. That’s the most thrilling and interesting thing to me about watching a movie, what the actors are doing.
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The people I love the most in the film industry are the writers. And I think they’re the people who are most vulnerable and are really open to new ideas. They’re the originators, the creators.
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It’s very difficult to put together an independent movie and a lot of times people really don’t hire casting directors for that. Instead, they look for people that they’ve seen in other movies or they’re friends with.
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When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.
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Superhero roles seem to be popular. I’d like to see more female superheroes. How about a grandmother superhero? I’d pay good money to see that.
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Real equality in films is going to take time and will directly reflect our society. So ladies, please speak up at home, at work, at school, everywhere. As more women continue to find their place in Hollywood we have to keep pushing for more dynamic and strong women’s roles.
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